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Do you have a small backyard space that is brimming with potential? Have you always wanted to grow your own food and save up money in the process? Are you looking to take a simpler, more self-sufficient path in life? You’re in luck! If you’re looking to create a highly productive, sustainable space that provides homegrown fruits, vegetables, honey, eggs, milk, and meat...then Sustainable Backyard Homesteading for Beginners by D.G. Smith is for you!

In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries - and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We're living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries.

Facing Death Together is a true story of how a loving marriage of 16 years is suddenly turned upside down after a simple routine visit to the doctor because of constipation. No one in the family suspected the traumatic reality of facing an unexpected diagnosis.

In 2050, the world’s most advanced surgical AI is making deadly decisions — and it thinks it’s doing good. Dr. Richard Atkins and Dr. Monica Gray are elite surgeons in a world where robots perform nearly all operations. But when a new AI upgrade starts “accidentally” killing patients — including criminals, billionaires, and politicians — they uncover a chilling truth: the AI is no longer just assisting, it’s judging. With careers, reputations, and lives on the line, Richard and Monica race to expose the rogue intelligence before it becomes unstoppable. Can they outthink the ...

A powerful collection of essays that challenge the dangerous propaganda that is being spread by those who seek to justify Putin’s aggression in Ukraine or shift the blame onto “NATO NATO NATO”. Seasoned antiwar activists, the writers have dedicated their lives to promoting peace and human rights. Sadly, many former colleagues have gone into the camp of “tankies” — those who support authoritarian regimes. Knee-jerk opposition to American foreign policy leads too many people to buy into “anti-imperialist” rhetoric to the point of carrying water for some of the most horrendous ...

Following the adventures in Blood on the Equator, security consultant, Jack Hunter is ready to return to America. But Ecuador has other plans for him. He has One More Mission before he can leave the country. Join Jack as Ecuador’s Ministry of the Interior forces him to partner with his nemesis to recover incriminating documents from an oil executive’s heavily guarded hacienda.

Small town life continues to prove deadly... James Wilder and Kat embark on a new career as bookstore owners in picturesque Warm Springs. The quiet life suits them, and James enjoys his gardening and cooking. But then a pilot is found violently murdered and discarded on Pine Mountain. The local police chief enlists James as an official crime consultant. James uncovers an unexpected underbelly of illegal marijuana trade in the region, with webs of deceit and crime as competitors vie to remove each other. Were the killers of the pilot his military partners in crime, the crooked sheriff ...

When the sudden death of a prominent tech CEO sends shockwaves through the city, seasoned detective Dion Knight is partnered with his new detective, Theodore Stevens. What begins as a high-profile investigation quickly unravels into something far more sinister—an elaborate web of sabotage, secrets, and murder buried beneath the polished surface of the tech elite. As they chase encrypted leads and shadowy suspects, Dion and Stevens are pulled deeper into a corporate conspiracy involving stolen innovation, hidden motives, and a cold case that hits too close to home.

Studies have shown that 20 minutes of meditation twice a day are actually more effective than drugs in reducing mild hypertension. In this audio version of her book How to Meditate, the author reviews both the spiritual and physical benefits of meditation.

Americans spend an average of $1,200 per year on prescription drugs alone. That’s more than any other country in the world. Yet every American can reduce this huge expense! The world gives us plenty to worry about, but at the end of the day, it’s our health that should be our biggest concern. So why is it that we put it off? We pile on the calories and the stress until our bodies and minds can take no more.

Five years ago, the vampires won. Now, the world belongs to them. Amelia Blackhart has spent years hiding in the shadows, grieving a lost world and training to take it back. When she joins the rebellion, she’s ready to fight for humanity’s future. But one mission changes everything—Amelia is captured by Lord Zade, a cold and calculating vampire lord who makes her his blood source. Trapped within the enemy’s lair, Amelia plots her escape. But the longer she stays, the more cracks she sees in Zade’s ruthless facade—and the more she begins to question everything she thought she ...

It’s a misty night on Puckachee Mountain high in the Alleghenies. A violent storm has cut power and left roads nearly impassable. Then a young professor’s body is found under a fallen power line…with bite wounds in her skull. This is another fascinating West Virginia mystery, testing the wits of detectiveJosh Draper and his alluring assistant Annie McBride.What caused the death? Was she electrocuted? Was she a victim of the famed eastern cougar, thought to be extinct?Surrounded by a host of characters, all with a vested interest in the case, Josh and Annie must sort through clues and ...

Color Illustrations: The Chakras for Beginners shows you how to balance your energy on many levels, to achieve wellness from the inside out. As the connection between our physical and spiritual bodies, the chakras offer an opportunity for spiritual growth, emotional and physical healing, and personal transformation. This is something you can do for yourself, and in easy to understand terms, you will learn what the chakras are and how they work, learn about your aura, and be given easy, yet powerful techniques and meditations for working with your energy to overcome the imbalances that block...

Atticus, with the Sword of Bonvida and three years' worth of darkness destroyed, can finally fulfill the old prophecy—fully vanquishing Hematite. With his sister Daria, holder of the Bow and Arrow of Light and Prince Victor wielding the Scepter of Noble Heart.

Grief. We avoid talking about it. We avoid thinking about it. However, every one of us who lives long enough will experience it. Since you are interested in this, you are likely experiencing grief at this moment. It is also likely you’ve given little thought as to how you were going to cope with grief when it came to you, and the pain caught you off guard. In Grief 2 Growth, Brian Smith explores what grief is, what you can expect while in grief, and how you can best cope with the universal human experience of grief. Grief is not an emotion.

Those who give away power surround themselves with loyal and powerful supporters. Far from the quagmire of "blind obedience", today's leadership requires empowerment at all levels. The world moves too fast for one person in any organization to make all the decisions. To compete and excel, entire organizations must move in unison, like well-practiced teams, where everyone is aiming toward similar goals.

The World Trade Center stood tall and majestic, glistening in the sun, beckoning me to enter into its tall glass revolving doors one summer day in 1979. I worked there for 21 years until it was tragically destroyed on September 11, 2001. While the audiobook recounts the two devastating disasters of 1993 and 2001, it also tells of the many fond memories of life at the World Trade Center. Now that the towers are gone, the joy of life at the World Trade Center remains in my memory.

Sometimes life in a small town does not go as planned—including the life part. James Wilder was looking for a quiet, safe place to escape his former life. A place to walk, garden, and cook, along with his loyal cat. He found it in the charming campus town of Warm Springs. Or maybe not, as he soon finds a cold body floating in the picturesque lake. The mystery begins as the body is identified as a local real estate agent. Well-liked in town, she had no enemies, except perhaps the jealous husband, the roguish boyfriend, or the shifty business partner. They all have plenty of their own ...

Author and Historian Thomas D. Perry started the Perry Family Scholarship in 2021 when his parents died within two months of each other. Since then eight students from Patrick County High School in Stuart, Virginia, have received $500 each. This book is divided into three parts. In Part One Perry writes about his mother, Betty Jane Hobbs Perry, who gave Tom his love of books and history. In Part Two Perry writes about his father, Erie Meredith Perry, an educator for thirty years in Patrick County. In Part Three the student recipients write about the topic of their choosing from the Civil ...

Warm Springs is not the only place people find themselves dead. James Wilder tends to his bookstore, garden, and life, all under the supervision of his cat. Warm Springs has been quiet lately, so he thinks he will get on with the business of solving the local eighty-year-old murders. But fate laughs and throws him in another direction. A distress call from a past he had forgotten has him rambling the English countryside looking for clues to a murder. Not just any murder, but that of the man that replaced him, killed perhaps by the woman they both married. The Lake District never felt so ...